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all right so the next talk will be about
assistive technology it will be
performed by Yan GOI it will be
translated in French and in
German the talk to use his own words
will be um again from Yang go licki he's
a quar plgic spinal cord injury Survivor
and just like millions of people he
cannot control a computer with his own
hands this talk will give an overview of
what our Cent technology has to offer
for this reality that affects millions
of people but is unknown to most thank
you give it
[Applause]
up good evening
CCC my name is Yan
and today I will introduce you to the
basics of handsfree assist of
Technology yeah I'm really happy to be
here for my first time and I'm also
really happy and glad that I got invited
to speak here so thank you everybody who
was organizing this conference it's
already a lot of fun so thank you for
everybody who who's joining the call
here who's um in person or remotely and
special Thanks goes to my colleagues and
my team of nurses who may also dial in
and last but not least to my partner who
is also sitting here in the
audience so ready
to yeah I'm excited to share my story
with you all
yeah I used to
consider um problems as challenges so I
was writing problems here in step two
but actually I will consider them as
challenges and because I see them as
opportunities for finding Solutions and
these are the scope of what I'm going to
present today so after half an hour of
presenting there will be time for
question and
answers I'm from berin I graduated as an
engineer and
Economist I enjoy traveling the world I
love
adventures and in particular exploring
Innovative
Technologies also I love my job um as a
co-founder uh of a crypto company I
won't discuss that topic
today everything started in
2017 I traveled with my family you can
see on the picture here to kabu in
Africa and I had a life changing
accident this picture was taken on the
day of the accident few hours before on
the left side you can see my
specs um
181 I'm still 181 if I'm standing um 70
kg and my top speed around 35 km per
hour so while swimming in the open
ocean a massive wave about 3 m caught
me pushed me head first onto the ground
and I broke my
neck within the next couple of days
which I barely
remember I had two Emergency
Operations I was flying from Africa to
Canaria to
Berlin and I
experienced a few multiple near death
moments and
reanimations
so I've been diagnosed with
quater which is a paralyze of all four
Limbs and the
too the word
quad refers to four
limbs specifically my diagnosis is sub
C3 what a coincidence
um
C3 actually indicates the spinal core
injury below the cervical three
vertebra the C4 and five is damaged and
the C4 damage affects my
diaphragm which is crucial for briefing
the most strongest muscle for briefing
thankfully I'm able to brief by my own
uh other people concerns are not but
cuffing sneezing and speaking are Del
challenge so you may notice that they
only speak when I'm exhaling that's my
secret um the damage also affects uh
extender muscles um for my arms for my
hands and that damage leads to a loss of
hand function so damage in C4 is quite a
GameChanger
the picture you see
here was one year
later during my rehabilitation in
Berlin um yeah I'm now bound to a power
wishare and will likely continue to use
it for the rest of my
life with the addition of the reare
share and it's two heavy
batteries my rate increased to 310 kg
and yeah I'm sitting most of the time I
actually can stand with this
fure um yeah I'm a little bit smaller so
the perspective changed a little
bit um yeah while I move much slower now
so my top speed is just 12 km hour these
heavy batteries also have a significant
Advantage I'm much faster than any
pedestrian so look at the specs again I
kindly I kindly ask you to consider
these facts keep them in mind in
particular if you have a feet close to
my
meure okay let's talk about challenges
due to my diagnosis I obviously face
several challenges is my daily
activities I am unable to move or
feel
almost and anything below my level of
injury and that corresponds to my
shoulders to summarize I cannot eat
drink cuff wash myself brush my teeth go
to bed go to doet or walk by my
own and what is it about today mainly I
cannot click a keyboard I cannot click a
computer mouse or Touch a
smartphone have a look on that list
because I have a
question if
I if I myself here I don't speak for
anybody else could start doing anything
of that something independently again
what would be the first thing just think
about it what you what do I won't bother
asking anybody so
that's the
ler so if I
qu then I
would drum
road while many typically answerers
start walking based on my experience
that's not true for most of the people
with severe disabilities and it's also
not for me my personal
answer
is go to the toilet
myself it's not really a matter of
privacy um it's actually not being able
to do that greatly affects my health and
can be even
life-threatening number
one um I won't dive deeper into that
topic for
now um and there number two I would
really really really
love to scratch myself whenever
ites uh it's hard to explain to third
person where exactly I need to scratch
right uh but being able to do this
myself would be greatly improve the
quality of my life these task May simple
may seem simple to others but for me
they would make a significant
difference
oops Yeah I'm not alone facing these
challenges um there are hundreds of
millions of people there are
1.3 billion people worldwide with
significant
disabilities according to
wh there are hundreds of millions of
people with
disabilities for hearing loss vision and
repairment and so on it's a long
last around 1% of the population needs a
re
share all these individuals they rely on
assisted Technologies to
navigate their daily
lives yeah that has created a market for
assist of Technologies projected to be
reaching uh something over $40 billion
within the next couple of years there
are already various Innovative
Technologies available such as helping
the blind to
skateboard enabling those with hearing
impairments to experience live
music there are affordable 3D printed
Prosthetics they have been developed for
people with amputations and so on
so we have Solutions let's talk about
Solutions so first of all I will start
with a very personal
solution um briefly on the Intensive
Care Station uh I created a
website together with the help of my
partner my brother um and that was an
online journal for myself and it was
very helpful for me in overcoming also
the psychological challenges after my
accident I call it quad works because
even if you're
quic still
works it started as a way as a Blog to
update my friends and my family on my
progress in the very beginning I
couldn't brief I couldn't talk uh
couldn't eat I couldn't drink anything
um and yeah there was a lot of progress
and this website kind of involved into a
little site project where I Shar
insights about my b a cord injury so it
tells a story of that experience of The
Rehabilitation since the accident and it
was designed pretty much for other
survivors
individuals with disabilities their
relatives or
therapists and one
section um is kind of dedicating to
showcase the tech I'm using and today I
want to focus on the communic ation
part and I have found yeah ways to
enhance my Independence using the
smartphone desktop smart home
devices you name it so there's some
office
basic gaps which are covered and most of
the time uh paid by the house
insurance um obviously for all kind of
mobilities which are needed from bed to
viure viure to bed um
yeah but he um yeah the health insurance
is not paying for
any for
communication pretty much that's a
that's a tough fight um but this is here
where the fun starts so I will show you
how I'm using my smartphone
handsfree so let's move on to a Hands-On
demonstration wait did I say
Hands-On I mean obviously handsfree so
to do that I rely on three essential
components the digital assistant just
like Siri voice control provided by the
operation system by default just
disabled and the switch
control setting along a
switch I using a single click button on
the left of my head in order to do
that okay demo
time I will start with my
switch and I will go into the control
center you can't see that yet I will
mirror my
screen that's a plan so so I will
basically mirror the screen of my iPhone
to my computer drum RS here we are
nice um you can see um an exis moving
left right I can use this uh to fine
tune and now I have another AIS and then
I will click and when I click then I can
point exactly somewhere and here we
are so I can click um multiple times and
then there comes a right click menu and
with the right click menu I can go in
the control center I can show a switch
between apps I can mute unmute decrease
the volume to emergency call zoom in out
make a screenshot locks the screen dot
dot dot um basically anything start go
into the settings go and ser and so on
okay that's switch control um voice
control works with my voice so let's
activate it have a look on the watch on
the top left there's a little symbol
wake
up voice
control go to
sleep so I use the combination of both
because it depends how much sound or
noise is in the
surrounding so don't wonder so sometimes
I have to send it to sleep and I have to
be careful whether I'm talking to you or
to my iPhone right now wake
up wake
up
three you so this is a guide you can
check out on your device and you can
start testing it yourself pretty much um
it will enable you to use the smartphone
much quicker than with your fingers
actually
five t
five so each clickable element basically
gets a number show
names or it gets a name
continue so there some delay here scroll
down I can imitate all kind of hand
gures scroll
down scroll
up Scroll
left swipe
left yeah that's a fast track I can just
skip all of that so feel free to test it
on yourself stop
listening wake up go
home open
WhatsApp go to
sleep okay number three my digital
assistant you're familiar with Siri
however want to make a little
presentation of it
hey
Siri s
WhatsApp hello
Yan
yeah not better
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h
okay three
components let's
go and
disable
the screen
mirroring
whoa yeah that was my smartphone and you
can already see um I'm also using a
desktop computer it's as as as important
as my smartphone and first of all I need
hardware for that and you can see the
head Mouse which looks like a webcam on
top of my laptop uh that is recognizing
my head movement um because there's a
little silver reflection dot in the
middle of my forehead uh that's crucial
That's essential basically it translates
my head movements into Mouse movements
yeah and obviously I also use voice
control for giving commands and
dictating so good microphones and a good
headset good heads sets actually are
essential for using a
computer and yeah not just Hardware
obviously software is crucial um dwell
click is a classic so I'm moving my
mouse all the time why because when I
stop moving actually it will start
clicking so that's why I go on
break clicks after quarter a second
automatically and I'm also using this
virtual keyboard here um keyboard text
are pre ations um for example or I can
change the way I'm clicking and can go
on double click on right click drag and
drop and I use shortcuts copy undo redo
uh Mark everything paste everything um
press. com and enter um return so
obviously I'm also using dictation
software and the native dictation from
the operating system
overall I try to digitize
everything
okay I would like to present
one tool which was really a game changer
for
me at the workplace and that is a
digital
whiteboard a digital
whiteboard allows for interactive and
proactive collaboration and presentation
in a hybrid format in person remote on
your phone um with Touch without I was
able to convince my labor office to pay
for that device it's close to five
digits and if you're an employer for the
matter of inclusion you may consider
integrating such device in your work
environment um it yeah I love it feel
free to contact me happy to support
that yeah other than my digital
life I also have a real
life and a lot of that is obviously
happening at my home at my smart home
and here again I use popular digital
assistance and their corresponding
devices and I use mobile apps obviously
for the corresponding Hardware for all
the elements my in my house to open and
close them such as doors or
curtains and all of that is typically
for the more sophisticated items based
on KX which is an open source pretty
much open source the gold standard for
home automation wired
connectivity so I have an app here I can
simply open my apartment door right now
and let in the
electrici yeah the most important items
for me and not just for people with
disabilities also for couch potatoes for
anybody who doesn't want to get up from
the couch in order to change the TV
program there are a lot of smart devices
there there are light systems can create
great atmospheres provide you automatic
scheduling that's the easy eest part
synchronized with music with movement
with uh with the weather whatever you
need with your GPS um that was one of
the first things I even installed in the
in the hospital already for myself so I
didn't need it to rely on a nurse to
switch on and off the
light um a thas is critical I I'm
struggling sometimes whether it's C or C
it can change the temperat based on your
location it takes when the windows open
it saves en money and a lot of
nerves and other helpful devices are
most obviously uh and they may need
wired connectivity or doors curtains
tables my couch my bed anything can be
basically
used U on every level that means with
voice with my mobile app or for able
Able Body people yeah with a click on a
switch
last but not least uh air purifying
cooling down or heating up your room and
ventilating as need is also uh yeah
something what I use every
day yeah now let me introduce you to my
top four favorite mobile
tools one is the hydrant for health it's
a great product and
it's prevents
dehydration and to dry
voice I also have a a multivan which you
can see on the top right um yeah with a
lift which comes from under the button
goes in and out and um I'm sitting as a
core driver there I always wanted to
have a driver and be the core driver and
yeah that's extremely helpful I must say
to be
mobile with together with my power Vis
and that car and maybe sometimes even
more mobile than I have been before my
accident I can highly recommend anybody
having Bluetooth sunglasses obviously
not for every kind of weather um but you
can make phone calls listen to music or
the navigation um without putting
anything into your ear and yeah they
look good as
well last but not
least something very important is a
blood pressure meter with
Bluetooth U simply synchronized all your
data on your phone and you can track
your health
record here let's talk
about Hightech let's talk
about gaming for example I haven't
started doing that yet but I know once I
will I will probably not do anything
else so that's the reason why I didn't
start it yet but it's possible with zp
and puff with clicking many different
buttons there are tubes where you can
you Sip and puff inside and then you do
actions or everything available already
you can yeah play a sophisticated game
just with your lips and
mouth there are robotic arms outside
which can help me yeah drinking whenever
I want basically without asking my
assistant and yeah there's
VR
obviously and there's AI I I have been
using AI it's part of my daily life
already and it's assisted me as well for
creating that
presentation so there's a lot out there
um probably enough uh content for
another uh
talk so I would be glad to get invited
again that's a picture for
me and this was Ups 2 years
ago so so by making technology more
accessible I believe you can Empower
people lazy
people but also people with disabilities
to be more independent and engaged and
by the way when I say lazy that's a good
thing right um because um lazy people
are Innovative otherwise we wouldn't
have
wheels or remote
controls through innovative
solutions um we can make a significant
impact on the lives of hundreds of
millions of
people and thanks to
assistant technology I sustained my job
which I had before the
accident until today as a managing
director for yeah for my
startup and in the last four years
thanks to
technology I traveled 80,000 km AC
across dozen of
cities dozen of countries and dozen of
mountains up to 3,500 M as you can see
here
so last
words for
now thank
you first of all and last to my partner
Jilla your my Godard in Asel and the
love of my
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life W thank you so much for sharing
your experience um are there any
questions okay we have a question from
um the internet maybe
first yeah so before I start with a
question huge respect and thank you for
sharing your story I think it was really
helpful for a lot of people in similar
situations so someone on the internet uh
asked
um if you only use Apple devices and or
or if you have also experien with other
platforms and what are important
improvements needed on those other
platform so most of
these elements components which I
demonstrated digital assistant voice
control and switch control they're all
available by default for Linux and Vos
as well have advantages Windows because
they're a little bit more open
um but yeah I like Apple because it's a
little bit more integrated across the
devices so just test it yourself it's
all available there let's do it yourself
yeah um and I must say I was impressed
about the development of the technology
in the last couple of years the accuracy
of the voice control and all these
accessibility features sky ored really
in the last couple of years while I was
using
them yeah
Mone um first of all thanks for
illustrating your experiences um what I
wanted to ask you I actually have two
questions one short question the thing
with your dot on your head is it like a
special color and is it important where
it is placed or is it just um imperative
that it is placed on your forehead
either
position typically I make a lot of jokes
to this answer today I won't promise
because people always ask me what it is
um so you see the camera on top of my
laptop that's looks like a webcam so for
me it's very important that I Center
myself towards the computer and that
webcam and um yeah and then I'm moving
basically moving my head all right I
will show you here
yeah I'm moving my head Left Right top
down and yeah it's basically translating
my head movement into my U Mouse
movement it's very smooth I see so it's
it could be also a little bit like uh a
little bit more down but it's important
that your position of your head is
somehow relaxed when you when you don't
Mo I see okay need to be aligned okay
and uh the second question is I mean you
use a lot of smart home um devices do
you sometimes think of uh your data that
you share with those um devices and
companies or is it for you priority
number one to make your life easy and or
easier and um gain
independence yeah that's a always a
compromise usability privacy security
and yeah usability convenience is for me
right now
first yeah
yeah
first of all thank you so much for your
presentation um do you have any um I
meant to say um it's really wonderful to
see how much progress has been made and
and how how independent you're able to
be because of this technology um do you
have any Su or recommendations for
resources for rehabilitation um most of
the stuff you talked about is like and
state so between your accident and um
your current status um is there anything
that you used that you recommend for
rehab and my related question my second
related question is is there anything
that you would recommend for convincing
doctors or therapists of the utility of
these
things first answer
no pretty much I presented today as a
summary of my experien which I figured
out myself um
over the couple of years and that's why
I started kind of building my website so
to say to support but it's
difficult um sorry second question um is
there anything you would recommend to
convince doctors or therapists of the
utility of some of this technology
because they're very stuck in like you
know yeah don't try
it okay yeah thank you hi uh thanks for
the talk so
uh you're clearly very skilled with the
tools that you use around you all this
input devices especially the the the
switch navigation and the mouse thing so
how long did it take for you to to
achieve this kind of level of skill for
manipulating
everything
roughly half a year I would say until I
I was writing my first blog post myself
yeah nice thank you make
three and um if you have to you're much
faster than learning um I can promise
you that so it's just doing this head
movement and head Mouse um yeah a couple
of weeks to months essentially um with
the voice is much faster
yeah and driving the vShare I use my
chin um with a joystick
took me 2 hours to learn
that thank you very much for your
presentation was very interesting I
wanted to ask you um for the people who
are creating software and interfaces
what would you say would be your
recommendations to make it more
accessible like is there something that
you find annoying that sometimes doesn't
exist in many interfaces uh or maybe
some recommendation that you have how we
could make tools that would be much
easier to
access I believe there's Universal
Design as a
principle and there are guidelines by
IOS and
Android but with the Technologies I
showed
you it doesn't matter like I can click
anything at any time or command what to
do it really doesn't bother me most of
the time yeah okay
M for uh two questions first is you've
probably tried a lot of things that not
work for you is there anything specific
you think is extremely
overrated or just just mly overrated
overrated yeah like
youed like difficult for me is
everything what has to do with wires
obviously like doors for example that's
really difficult um um the question was
about uh assistive technologies that are
supposed to help you but did not help
you in the way you
intended no not really interesting I
must say it's even underrated because
you saw how quickly uh you can speed up
your performance like uh if you just use
your voice you can be so fast writing
your email it's incredible or text and
so on or control devices if with a few
things you can simply outperform your
colleagues yeah that's actually really
nice to hear uh second question have you
played with ey tracking has it been
useful to you have I played tring uh no
it's not useful for me it might be
useful for others because I can move my
head and if I what I can move I should
move okay thank
you nice well that was quite a bunch of
questions thank you so much oh there is
another one
yeah
uh uh do you use two Factor
authentication for login or password or
fingerprint and uh what how it is
working for
you yes I have to and I recommend you to
do so as much as possible that's the
must have to so to factor authentication
100% yes um there's authentication apps
on your phone
um and with using voice control or
switch control I click on it and it
copies automatically and then I switch
the app and I say paste that and the
code is pasted it's or yeah I can do
that within 15 seconds that's
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